Word: rebellion
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...Khartoum courtroom last August was memorable for more than its drama. It marked the first time that a white mercenary had ever been brought to trial in Africa. Last week the tribunal rendered its verdict: the German-born Steiner, 42, was guilty of aiding the 15-year-old rebellion of black southern Sudanese against the northern Arab government. Steiner was sentenced to death, but President Jaafar Numeiry immediately commuted the sentence to 20 years' imprisonment...
What these fans saw and participated in was nothing less than a popular rebellion against both the New England Power Company and newspaper photographers...
...cynical conservatism. Like so many lifers with little hope of parole, he defends his prison because he must live in it. From this human and literary dead end, Updike leads Rabbit back to a measure of vitality. Not surprisingly, the agents of change come courtesy of the youth rebellion and those threatening yet fascinating blacks...
Shakespeare probably intended Iago to be a kind of human devil in this play, but Ralph Pachoda's Iago, at times running away with the show, stretches his role almost into that of a Miltonic Satan, a villain so persistent in his rebellion, so singleminded in his misconceived passion for revenge, that he steals part of our sympathy almost against our will. He is so capable a man that we sympathize with him over his lack of promotion--and wonder why he isn't able to engineer his own advancement, rather than others deaths. If he hadn't managed...
Although "untidiness" was the reason behind Scollard's firing according to Richard Vitali, manager of the Harvard Club, Scollard maintains the actual cause of his present difficulty stems from a speech he gave on the Boston Common in September supporting the Attica State Prison rebellion...